Outline of “Doc’s” articles below:Part 1: How Health Care Became So Expensive in AmericaPart 2: Medicaid, and Why Single Payer Won’t WorkPart 3: Comparing the Costs of “Billed Through Insurance” to “Self Pay”Part 4: Pre-Existing Conditions and More Free Market Solutions

Articles by “Doc” posted July 4, 2017.
An introduction by “Doc” and links to all four of his articles about
American Healthcare in Crisis.
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“It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication, somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication, and a government bureaucracy to administer it.” – Thomas Sowell

We are truly at a crossroads in American healthcare. The seemingly endless layers of regulations and requirements, as well as the overhead for the bureaucracy itself, are crushing it.

Our healthcare system has become rife with corruption and inefficiency. Special interests lobby politicians to force you to buy their services and pay for subsidies, while politicians leverage their influence to garner votes and enrich themselves and their friends.

Doctors and patients have been reduced to being mere commodities.

When Obamacare was being pushed through Congress, we were told premiums would go down; that we would get to keep our doctor; and that visits to the ER would decrease. Exactly the opposite happened. The government has exacerbated, if not created, this crisis.